Trial Starts for Anti-Hunting Pilot Who Decapitated Fox Hunter With a Helicopter
From the Scottish Daily Record: A hunt supporter had his head cut in half when he tried to stop a...
From the Scottish Daily Record:
A hunt supporter had his head cut in half when he tried to stop a gyrocopter flown by an anti-hunting pilot from taking off, a court heard yesterday.
Trevor Morse died instantly when the rear propeller “cleaved his head from top to bottom”.
Anti-hunting protester Bryan Griffiths, a qualified pilot, had been watching the Warwickshire Hunt near Long Marston airfield on March 9 last year.
Hunt supporters claimed that his swooping gyrocopter was upsetting livestock.
Hunt-follower Morse, 48, tried to prevent Griffiths taking off when the pilot allegedly taxied towards him at speed.
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